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Arnold, Thomas Clay. "Rethinking Moral Economy." American Political Science Review 95, no. 1 (March 2001): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055401000089.
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I establish three closely related claims. The first two are interpretive, the third theoretical. (1) The prevailing conception of moral economy in political science, presupposed by opponents as well as advocates, rests too heavily on the distinction between nonmarket and market-based societies. (2) The prevailing conception of moral economy reduces to the unduly narrow claim that economic incorporation of a nonmarket people is the basis for the moral indignation that leads to resistance and rebellion. (3) Reconceptualizing moral economy in terms of social goods reveals additional grounds for politically significant moral indignation and permits moral-economic political analysis of a larger set of cases and phenomena. Water politics in the arid American West illustrate the power of a conception of moral economy based on social goods.
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ALLARD-TREMBLAY, YANN. "Human rights, specification and communities of inquiry." Global Constitutionalism 4, no. 2 (July 2015): 254–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045381715000052.
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AbstractThis paper offers a revised political conception of human rights informed by legal pluralism and epistemic considerations. In the first part, I present the political conception of human rights. I then argue for four desiderata that such a conception should meet to be functionally applicable. In the rest of the first section and in the second section, I explain how abstract human rights norms and the practice of specification prevent the political conception from meeting these four desiderata. In the last part of the paper, I argue that full-fledged tolerance in the international order – that is tolerance-as-non-intervention and tolerance-as-respect – should be attached to (1) compliance withjus cogensnorms and to; (2a) a political community recognizably organized as a community of inquiry that is; (2b) committed to the specification and incorporation or expression of the idea of human rights within its local legal system.
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Horn, Laurence. "WJ-40: Implicature, truth, and meaning." International Review of Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (2009): 3–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187731009x455820.
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Abstract40-plus years ago Paul Grice initiated modern pragmatics by defining a relation of conversational implicature within a general theory of cooperation and rationality. While critics have disputed the formulation and derivation of Gricean principles, the overall framework, with appropriate emendations, remains the most natural and explanatory approach to predicting constraints on lexical incorporation, the behavior of scalar predicates, pragmatic strengthening, and other linguistic phenomena. Despite recent arguments for an enriched conception of propositional content, a range of real and fictional exchanges bearing on the distinction between lying and misleading supports the neo-Gricean view of an austere conception of what is said.
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de Almeida Costa, Arthur Barrêtto. "Expropriation and the Challenge to Liberal Thought: Multinormative Management of State Intervention beyond the Conflict Liberty vs. Authority: (Brazil, 1826–1930)." Administory 5, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 79–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2020-0006.
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Abstract Nineteenth century features the supremacy of the administrative state and the absolutized conception of property, expressing liberalism. By then, lawyers thought of expropriation as a clash between these two values. However, in early twentieth century, as the interventionist state expanded, the public power colludes with private citizens, and the subjects profited from expropriations. This challenged the liberal opposition mentality and was followed by the incorporation of a social conception of property. Throughout one century, the interpretation of expropriation changed as the underlying moral normativity on property changed, prompted by economic modifications, even though the legal texts remained mostly the same.
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Albanese, Veronica, and Francisco Javier Perales. "Mathematics Conceptions by Teachers from an Ethnomathematical Perspective." Bolema: Boletim de Educação Matemática 34, no. 66 (April 2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-4415v34n66a01.
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Abstract The ethnomathematical perspective implies substantial epistemological changes in mathematics conception with respect to the positivist tradition. This research focuses on a workshop for pre-service teachers, designed and developed under the ethnomathematical perspective, and which promotes reflection on the nature of mathematical knowledge. To that end, we analyzed the teachers’ answers about the nature of the mathematics described after the participation in this workshop. First, we identified some characteristic approaches of mathematics from the ethnomathematical perspective - the practical, social, and cultural approaches - and then used them to analyze the participants’ observations, which are considered as evidence of their conceptions about the nature of mathematical knowledge. Later, we grouped participants in profiles defined in relation to the incorporation of mathematics approaches according to Ethnomathematics. In conclusion, the workshop is shown as an environment conducive to reflection.
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Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Is India Part of Asia?" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20, no. 6 (December 2002): 669–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d260t.
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In casting Asia as Europe's ‘Other’, it is often assumed that European spatial imaginaries are unproblematically assimilated by the peoples of Asia themselves. In this paper I challenge this assumption by charting the changing characterization of India, from being virtually synonymous with Asia for centuries to being virtually excluded from the reigning conceptions of Asia. I provide a thumbnail sketch of the spatial imaginaries of some of the peoples inhabiting the cartographic quadrant labeled ‘Asia‘. Against this background, I examine how these imaginaries were subverted by the incorporation of Asia within the capitalist world system. I then chart the impact of modernization theories on the newly independent states of the region. I argue that as several major centers of capital accumulation emerged in Asia, and capitalism ceased to be a Euro-American narrative, a new conception of Asia emerged in the 1980s. If India's lack of industrial development marginalized it from these imaginaries, it is suggested that the meltdown of the Asian ‘miracles' has once again destabilized hitherto-dominant conceptions of Asia.
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Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin. "Qi-Transformation and the Steam Engine The Incorporation of Western Anatomy and Re-Conceptualisation of the Body in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Medicine." Asian Medicine 7, no. 2 (January 20, 2012): 319–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341256.
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AbstractTang Zonghai (1851–1908), the widely acclaimed proponent of medical eclecticism in the late Qing period, invented the famous formula: ‘Western medicine is good at anatomy; Chinese medicine is good atqi-transformation.’ While it is well-known that Tang coined the concept ofqihua氣化 (qi-transformation) and thereby created a long-lasting dichotomy between Chinese and Western medicine, it is little known that Tang’s conception ofqi-transformation was built upon, and therefore heavily influenced by, a newly-imported technology from the West, namely the steam engine.Based on this surprising discovery, this article intends to make three interrelated arguments. First, Tang Zonghai drew on the newly invented model of the steam engine and the related concept of steam to create a new understanding ofqi-transformation in the human body. Second, this new understanding ofqienabled him to reform Chinese medicine by incorporating the new knowledge and visual illustrations of Western anatomy, most notably the illustration of the peritoneum fromGray’s Anatomyand the existence of the ureters. And third, in the dual process of developing the new understanding ofqi-transformation and incorporating Western anatomy into Chinese medical doctrines, Tang radically re-conceptualised and re-visualised the body of Chinese medicine, especially the three interrelated organs of the bladder, the Triple Burner, and the kidney. Instead of creating an invisible and immaterial world ofqi-transformation in opposition to the materialism of Western anatomy, Tang made his conception ofqi-transformation instrumental for the incorporation of Western anatomy into Chinese medical doctrines. With the help of this new understanding ofqias steam, Tang systematically responded to the criticisms raised by Benjamin Hobson and Wang Qingren, formally starting the difficult and problematic process of (re)-visualising the Chinese medical body.
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Istanda, Vaci, Chun Yang Chang, Wan Chun Lee, Yuan Chen Liu, and Sheng Ren Wang. "Concept Cartoons Based Two-Tier Online Testing System for Magnetism Conception." Applied Mechanics and Materials 148-149 (December 2011): 891–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.148-149.891.
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This paper aimed at constructing a two-tier on-line testing system. Questions were designed based on integration of concept cartoons and multimedia in hopes that the unexplainable contents of an object can be appropriately represented and interpreted through the means of concept cartoons, and that student’s understanding of the questions and interests in test taking can be effectively enhanced through pictorial presentation of concept cartoons. This system was to construct a testing tool through which tests were conducted to explore third graders’ magnetism misconception. The outcomes indicated that incorporation of concept cartoons in multimedia on-line testing can improve accuracy than traditional written test on paper. During the study, 14 magnetism misconceptions entertained by the pupils were identified and classified. Further, the on-line testing tool can attain satisfactory results in system utilization, animation design, attracting students’ attention and enhancing their understanding of the questions. It demonstrated the fact that integration of concept cartoons with two-tier on-line testing can improve question comprehension and students’ attention.
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Möllers, Christoph. "Democracy and Human Dignity: Limits of a Moralized Conception of Rights in German Constitutional Law." Israel Law Review 42, no. 2 (2009): 416–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021223700000625.
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The Parliamentary Council, the constitutional assembly for the German Basic Law, split over the question whether the guarantee of human dignity should be understood as the result of a democratic decision or as the incorporation of a pre-existing universal principle of Christian origin. The subsequent constitutional practice was dominated by a moral understanding of the norm that stressed the contradiction between democracy and human dignity. This Article rejects this interpretation and attempts to show, using the exemplary German case, that a democracy-oriented interpretation of human dignity is not necessarily less effective than a moralized understanding.
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Alejandro Torres. "ANALYSIS OF THE VULNERABILITY MODEL FOR DECISION-MAKING IN THE FIELD OF CARE FOR THE ELDERLY." ENDLESS : International Journal of Future Studies 2, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.54783/endless.v2i1.12.
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This article analyzes the validity of vulnerability as a model for decision making regarding the personal and socio-family situation of the elderly person in need of care. The adequacy of the model responds to the centrality of the risk element in decision-making, the nature of care and respect for the principles that inspire the rights of vulnerable older persons. The concept of vulnerability connects with a new conception in which vulnerability is based, not only on the loss of autonomy, but also on the susceptibility to bankruptcy of the rights of dignity and integrity in daily life; in line with an existentially diverse and vulnerable human conception. The incorporation of this approach to the Law of the capacity of the elderly and regulation of social services will require its consideration in the reports and diagnoses of Social Work.
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DaSilva, Fabio Nacimento. "Analysis of the Vulnerability Model for Decision-Making in the Field of Care for the Elderly." International Journal of Science and Society 2, no. 4 (October 27, 2020): 438–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.54783/ijsoc.v2i4.229.
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This article analyzes the validity of vulnerability as a model for decision making regarding the personal and socio-family situation of the elderly person in need of care. The adequacy of the model responds to the centrality of the risk element in decision-making, the nature of care and respect for the principles that inspire the rights of vulnerable older persons. The concept of vulnerability connects with a new conception in which vulnerability is based, not only on the loss of autonomy, but also on the susceptibility to bankruptcy of the rights of dignity and integrity in daily life; in line with an existentially diverse and vulnerable human conception. The incorporation of this approach to the Law of the capacity of the elderly and regulation of social services will require its consideration in the reports and diagnoses of Social Work.
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Czeizel, Andrew E., Benjamin Czeizel, and Attila Vereczkey. "The Participation of Prospective Fathers in Preconception Care." Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health 7 (January 2013): CMRH.S10930. http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/cmrh.s10930.
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We present the data of male participants in the Coordinating Center of the Hungarian Preconception Service (HPS), Budapest, 1984-2010. One of main objectives of the HPS was the incorporation of male partners of female participants into the preparation of childbirth. The HPS is based on three steps: (I) Reproductive health check-up. (II) A 3-month preparation for conception with the major determinants of the development of new life such as sex, health and/or some diseases. Smoking and illicit drug use cessation and limitation of alcohol intake was suggested in the male participants (III) to achieve optimal conception and better protection of early pregnancy. Pregnant women usually visit prenatal care clinics between the 7th and 12th gestational week when it is too late to reduce the risk of congenital abnormalities. Male participation in HPS will help to enhance use of appropriate preconception methods at the appropriate time.
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Browning, Rufus P., Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb. "Protest Is Not Enough: A Theory of Political Incorporation." PS: Political Science & Politics 19, no. 03 (1986): 576–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500018138.
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Protest Is Not Enoughis partly a report on the politics of black and Hispanic mobilization in ten northern California cities and partly an effort to formulate a theory useful for the study of minority mobilization and its significance in cities generally. The cities are San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, Berkeley, Richmond, Hayward, Vallejo, and Daly City. We did not expect to generalize the particulars of our ten cities to others, but we did try to cast our concepts and fundamental relationships at a sufficiently general level to encompass a wide variety of cities, and we hoped that the application of our framework to other cities would suggest ways in which it should be extended or altered.The TheoryWe wanted a conception of minority political action and position that linked mobilization to policy, that demonstrated the connection between the passions, interests, and actions of mobilization and the governmental response—if any. It was apparent that blacks and Hispanics achieved a much stronger and more positive response to their interests in some cities than in others. It was apparent also that minority representation in elective offices, the customary way of describing their political position, did not capture the strength of the minority position in the more responsive city governments. The key to the higher levels of responsiveness was not representation but coalition: minority inclusion in a coalition that was able to dominate a city council produced a much more positive governmental response than the election of minority council-members who were not part of the dominant coalition.
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Gendron, Tracey, Jennifer K. Inker, Rachel Andricosky, and Faika Zanjani. "Development of the Relational Ageism Scale: Confirmatory Test on Survey Data." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 90, no. 3 (March 21, 2019): 281–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091415019836956.
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The objective of the study is to test a refined measure of attitudes about aging as a multidimensional construct reflective of a relational process that includes personal identity (i.e., beliefs about oneself), social identity (i.e., self-conception based on group membership), and collective identity (i.e., self-conception based on comparison of groups) as well as capturing awareness of ageism and its impact. Researchers refined the Aging Anxiety Scale and recruited a convenience sample of 329 participants via a social media platform. A principal component factor analysis revealed the specification of three latent factors: personal, relational, and collective aging anxiety. Awareness of ageism as a problem in society was lower than awareness of other forms of discrimination, and awareness of the negative impacts of ageism was low. The findings support the incorporation of this new measure of relational aging anxiety as a by-product of social identity and construction in future ageism studies.
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Pryce, J. E., and R. F. Veerkamp. "The incorporation of fertility indices in genetic improvement programmes." BSAP Occasional Publication 26, no. 1 (January 2001): 237–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263967x00033711.
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AbstractIn recent years there has been considerable genetic progress in milk production. Yet, increases in yield have been accompanied by an apparent lengthening of calving intervals, days open, days to first heat and a decline in conception rates, which appears to be both at the genetic and phenotypic level. Fertility has a high relative economic value compared to production traits such as protein, making it attractive to include in a breeding programme. To do this there needs to be genetic variance in fertility. Measures of fertility calculated from service dates have a small genetic compared to phenotypic variance, hence heritability estimates are small, typically less than 5%, although coefficients of genetic variance are comparable to those of production traits. Heritabilities of commencement of luteal activity determined using progesterone profiles are generally higher, and have been reported as being from 0.16 to 0.28, which could be because of a more precise quantification of genetic variance, as management influences such as delaying insemination and heat detection rates are excluded. However, it might not be the use of progesterone profiles alone, as days to first heat observed by farm staff has a heritability of 0.15. The most efficient way to breed for improved fertility is to construct a selection index using the genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates of all traits of interest in addition to their respective economic values. Index traits for fertility could include measures such as calving interval, days open, days to first service, or days to first heat but there may also be alternative measures. Examples include traits related to energy balance, such as live weight and condition score (change), both of which have higher heritabilities than fertility measures and have genetic correlations of sufficient magnitude to make genetic progress by using them feasible. To redress the balance between fertility and production, some countries already publish genetic evaluations of fertility including: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
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Kleingeld, Pauline. "Patriotism, Peace and Poverty: Reply to Bernstein and Varden." Kantian Review 19, no. 2 (May 29, 2014): 267–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1369415414000053.
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AbstractIn this essay I reply to Alyssa Bernstein and Helga Varden's comments on my book, Kant and Cosmopolitanism. In response to Bernstein, I argue that Kant's opposition to the coercive incorporation of states into an international federation should be interpreted as permitting no exceptions. In response to Varden, I clarify Kant's conception and defence of patriotism as a duty, and I show how Kantian cosmopolitans can rebut Bernard Williams's ‘one-thought-too-many’ objection. I also explicate why, given a specific feature of Kant's defence of the state's duty to provide poverty relief, an international federation can be seen to have an analogous duty.
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DUTRA SALGADO, Pedro. "History, Agency and Eurocentrism in the English School." Relaciones Internacionales, no. 41 (June 10, 2019): 33–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2019.41.002.
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The recent English School literature within the discipline of International Relations has been successful in renewing that tradition’s popularity, along with revising some of its core elements. This work have generated innovations in its theoretical framework, resulting in important differences in relation to the classic works of the British Committee. Despite such innovations, some of its limits remain in place, as it is still centred on an Eurocentric historical perspective. In this paper, I address two recent contributions to the body of English School literature: the new narrative of globalisation of the international society, and the turn to process sociology. By analysing these contributions, I argue that by not presenting a systematic conception of agency and historical change, history becomes relegated to a secondary role in their explanatory process: it is mobilised as a set of examples that either confirms or expands the theoretical conception of the international society or its expansion. This secondary role of history provides shelter for Eurocentrism in IR theory, since it allows for the incorporation of extra-European agencies and processes without challenging the theory that was produced in their absence. In return, I argue for a radically historicist conception of theory, drawing from a particular push for historicism in the tradition of Political Marxism. This radical historicism shifts the focus from overarching processes and their outcomes towards the many conflicting agencies who played a role in the transformations of international politics.
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Dwyer, Susan. "Reconciliation for Realists." Ethics & International Affairs 13 (March 1999): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00328.x.
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Reconciliation is being urged upon people who have been bitter and murderous enemies, upon victims and perpetrators of terrible human rights abuses, and upon groups of individuals whose very self-conceptions have been structured in terms of historical and often state-sanctioned relations of dominance and submission. The rhetoric of reconciliation is particularly common in situations where traditional judicial responses to past wrongdoing are unavailable because of corruption in the legal system, staggeringly large numbers of offenders, or anxiety about the political consequences of trials and punishment.But what is reconciliation? How is reconciliation to be achieved? And under what conditions should it be sought? The notable lack of answers to these questions prompts the worry that talk of reconciliation is merely a ruse to disguise the fact that a “purer” type of justice cannot be realized–that, in being asked to focus on reconciliation rather than on punishment, victims of past wrongdoing are having to settle for the morally second best. By mining our pretheoretical understandings of reconciliation, the essay arrives at a core concept of reconciliation as narrative incorporation that at the same time suggests a way in which reconciliation might be pursued and grounds a response to moral qualms provoked by the use of an unanalyzed conception of reconciliation.
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S, Iwin Thanakumar Joseph. "SURVEY OF DATA MINING ALGORITHM’S FOR INTELLIGENT COMPUTING SYSTEM." Journal of Trends in Computer Science and Smart Technology 01, no. 01 (September 8, 2019): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.36548/jtcsst.2019.1.002.
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The Intelligent computing system, described to be a collection of the connected device working in mutual understanding to attain a particular purpose, is an incorporation of artificial intelligence and the computational intelligence, and are employed in variety of applications. The paper presents the survey on the data mining algorithms and the techniques that could be employed with the intelligent computing system, presenting a basic conception of the data mining along with the prominent algorithms of the data mining and the classification of its techniques, further the survey concludes with the challenges included in the overview of the survey done along with the future enhancement in the research that analyses the data mining techniques in the intelligent computing applications.
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Robertson, Viktoria H. S. E. "The relevant market in competition law: a legal concept." Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 7, no. 2 (March 11, 2019): 158–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnz005.
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Abstract In competition law, the relevant market acts as a filter that delineates that part of commerce within which competition law assesses companies’ market behaviour. This contribution considers how competition law can reconcile the legal concept of the relevant market with its economic roots. It argues that for market definition—like for many an economic concept—a spectrum opens up between law and economics. On the economics side of the spectrum, economics may take on a more determinative role almost amounting to normative force. This places considerable pressure on the integrity of economics. On the law side of the spectrum, the relevant market is looked at through the prism of the law and is seen as a legal concept building upon an economic one. Here, economics is assigned an interpretive role. A plethora of different positions are possible along the spectrum, and different actors may place themselves at different locations under different circumstances or at different points in time. If it is acknowledged that the relevant market concept acquires a distinct legal conception through its incorporation into the competition laws, then this has far-reaching repercussions on our entire conception of competition law. This view effectively calls into question not only competition law’s understanding of the relevant market, but also the prevailing understanding of other shared legal and economic concepts.
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Creighton, Mathew, Christa Matthys, and Luciana Quaranta. "Migrants and the Diffusion of Low Marital Fertility in Belgium." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42, no. 4 (February 2012): 593–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00306.
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Although the diffusion of fertility behavior between different social strata in historical communities has received considerable attention in recent studies, the relationship between the diffusion of fertility behavior and the diffusion of people (migration) during the nineteenth century remains largely underexplored. Evidence from population registers compiled in the Historical Database of the Liège Region, covering the period of 1812 to 1900, reveals that migrant couples in Sart, Belgium, from 1850 to 1874 and from 1875 to 1899 had a reduced risk of conception. The incorporation of geographical mobility, as well as the migrant status of both husbands and wives, into this fertility research sheds light not only on the spread of ideas and behaviors but also on the possible reasons why the ideas and behaviors of immigrants might have been similar to, or different from, those of a native-born population.
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Carvalho da Rocha, Ana Luiza, Cornelia Eckert, and Matheus Cervo. "Heterotopias and heterochronies: the challenges of the ethnography of duration in Brazilian cities (dialogues with Michel Foucault)." Revista de Antropologia Visual 2, no. 29 (May 25, 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.47725/rav.029.04.
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The article talks about the “heterotopias” and “heterochronias” based on studies of ethnography of duration (Eckert & Rocha, 2013b) in the context of large Brazilian metropolises. We propose a reflection especially in relation to the work Des espaces autres (1967) by Michel Foucault (1984) in which the author criticizes the cumulative conception of time for the understanding of the contemporary world. According to the author, the current epoch is more related to space than to the accumulation of time, because the experiences of juxtaposition and simultaneity are opposed to the experiences of linear and progressive time proposed by the modern epistème. In opposition to the use of heterotopias as a way of neglecting the importance of “heterochronias”, this writing proposes a critical incorporation of Foucault's heterotopology into the studies of the ethnography of duration in contemporary urban spaces
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COUDURIER, B., J. L. PEYRAUD, E. BLESBOIS, F. JEULAND, N. URRUTY, C. HUYGHE, and H. GUYOMARD. "Méthodologie d’aide à la conception et à l’évaluation de systèmes de production multiperformants : application à l’élevage de bovins laitiers et à la production de poulets de chair." INRA Productions Animales 28, no. 1 (January 10, 2020): 51–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2015.28.1.3010.
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Suite à un appel d’offre du Commissariat Général à la Stratégie et à la Prospective du gouvernement français, l’INRA a analysé les possibilités d’évolution des pratiques et des systèmes agricoles français vers des systèmes de production plus durables conciliant performances productives, économiques, environnementales et sociales. Une méthodologie d’aide à la conception et à l’évaluation de systèmes a été développée à cette occasion. Elle s’appuie sur un répertoire de plus de 200 pratiques agricoles élémentaires dont l’impact a été qualifié sur 35 indicateurs de performances, ainsi que sur une table de compatibilité entre pratiques élémentaires. Deux études de cas fondées sur des modalités différentes d’utilisation de cette méthodologie sont présentées : i) la conception pas à pas de système de production par incorporation progressive de pratiques élémentaires à partir d’une pratique d’entrée à effet majeur, pour accroître l’autonomie alimentaire en production bovine laitière en valorisant la prairie ; ii) l’évaluation à postériori des performances de systèmes en transcrivant sous forme de pratiques élémentaires des leviers d’action et marges de progrès identifiés à dire d’expert pour améliorer la compétitivité de la filière poulet de chair par la mise en place de deux systèmes de production très contrastés mais complémentaires. Les tendances d’évolution des performances des systèmes de production ainsi simulés ou reconstitués sont discutées. Dans les situations d’impact ambivalent d’une pratique sur une performance, le recours au descriptif détaillé des pratiques permet le plus souvent de réduire l’incertitude en prenant en compte les situations associées à chaque type d’impact.
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Jayarao, Mayur, and Lawrence S. Chin. "Robotics and its applications in stereotactic radiosurgery." Neurosurgical Focus 23, no. 6 (December 2007): E5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/foc-07/12/e6.
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✓ Stereotactic radiosurgery has undergone a remarkable evolution since its conception and the subsequent introduction of image-guided radiosurgery, primarily because of the concurrent advances in imaging and computer technology. However, recent improvements in real-time imaging, inverse planning techniques, and frameless alternatives have greatly enhanced the conformity and accuracy of the radiosurgical procedure. As a consequence, the possibility of hypofractionation is offered, and both intra- and extracranial targets can now be ablated with sustained submillimetric precision. Although all indispensable features, none is as impressive or useful as the incorporation of robotics, robotic beam delivery, or robotic-assisted planning, which has only served to improve the accuracy and homogeneity of therapy. The aim of this article was to describe the general technological basis of robots in radiosurgery and to review current clinical usage of robotic radiosurgery devices. Emphasis has been placed on robotic principles and the various popular applications currently available.
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Nygaard, Bertel. "The Specter of Communism." Contributions to the History of Concepts 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/choc.2016.110101.
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The modern concept communism emerged in the French public sphere in 1840 and rapidly gained currency in other European countries as well. Though primarily used as a term of derision, its radicalization of already-established senses of accelerating change and worldly futurity secured its incorporation in complex unities of utopian hopes and dystopian fears all over the political spectrum of the time. The Danish public sphere of the 1840s reveals three basic modes of using communism, each linked in its peculiar way to new uses of the concept democracy: conservative equations of democratic political equality (particularly, universal male suffrage) and communist attacks on private property in favor of a community of goods; leftist democratic denials of such equations and the emergence of anticommunist democratic positions; and, between the two extremes, liberal distinctions between their own moderate conception of democracy and the false, “communist” democracy of the left .
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Cursino, Emília Gallindo, Elizabeth Fujimori, and Maria Aparecida Munhoz Gaíva. "Comprehensiveness in child healthcare teaching in Undergraduate Nursing: perspective of teachers." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 48, no. 1 (February 2014): 110–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420140000100014.
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This qualitative study analyzed, from the teacher’s perspective, if the principle of comprehensiveness is included in child healthcare teaching in nursing education. The participants were 16 teachers involved in teaching child healthcare in eight undergraduate nursing programs. Data collection was performed through interviews that were submitted to thematic content analysis. The theory in teaching incorporates comprehensive care, as it is based on children’s epidemiological profile, child healthcare policies and programs, and included interventions for the promotion/prevention/rehabilitation in primary health care, hospitals, daycare centers and preschools. The comprehensive conception of health-disease process allows for understanding the child within his/her family and community. However, a contradiction exists between what is proposed and what is practiced, because the teaching is fragmented, without any integration among disciplines, with theory dissociated from practice, and isolated practical teaching that compromises the incorporation of the principle of comprehensiveness in child healthcare teaching.
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Mumfaz, Soofia, and Anjum Fatima. "The Cultural Conception and Structural Perpetuation of Female Subordination: An Examination of Gender Relations among the Populations of the Chalt-Chaprote Community in the Nager Valley of Northern Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 31, no. 4II (December 1, 1992): 621–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v31i4iipp.621-635.
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This paper examines the subordination of women by men among the populations of the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The examination is undertaken with reference to the Chalt-Chaprote community in the Nagar Valley, where fieldwork was conducted in 1989-90. Hence, we: (a) Analyse the manner in which the subordination of women is manifested, and reinforced during different socioeconomic activities; and (b) Determine the effects, or lack of effect, on the status and role of women, of changing conditions (as a consequence of increased incorporation of the region in which the community is located, within the political economy).
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De Maio, Gerald. "The Republican Schoolmaster and the Problem of Religion in America." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 30, no. 1 (2018): 169–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2018301/210.
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There is a view that the U.S. Supreme Court has acted as a “republican schoolmaster,” defining and educating the public on the permissible interaction between government and religion. The Court gave government, especially state governments, considerable latitude until incorporation of the religion clauses in the 1940s. In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Court articulated a rigid conception of church and state which set precedents for decades. Those precedents restricted accommodation to religion by government, based on an incomplete reading of the Founding debates on religion. It has been gradually corrected since Justice William Rehnquist’s dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985). The implications of the separationist interpretation have had consequences that remain. The most obvious being forestalling experimentation with school choice for non-public school students and precluding the use of public facilities for religious groups until a series of corrective rulings beginning, for the most part, in the 1990s. The republican schoolmaster is now accountable for the intellectual lineage it uses.
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Ames, Robert Landau. "The Technology of Happiness: Philosophy, the Body, and Ghaz?l?’s K?m?y?-yi sa??dat." Comparative Islamic Studies 9, no. 2 (September 27, 2016): 121–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cis.v9i2.27043.
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This article suggests a repositioning of philosophy’s disciplinary boundaries in terms of the analyses of ancient Greek philosophy carried out late in the career of Michel Foucault, which, under the influence of Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life, set out to highlight "the care of the self" as the practical core of the Ancient philosophical enterprise. In light of this shift in disciplinary boundaries, the article seeks to deepen the ongoing reconsideration of Ab? H?mid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghaz?l?’s position vis-à-vis philosophy by highlighting the role of the body and self-care in his ethical writing. Though recent scholarship has come to reject the notion that Ghaz?l? simply did away with philosophy in Islam, even the studies of his constructive incorporation of Avicennan thought have stopped short of highlighting bodily discipline as a central feature of spiritual exercise across these categories.
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Ahern, Patrick. "Empowered Peace." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 28, no. 2 (2018): 60–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/peacejustice201828215.
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Spinoza’s defense of a dynamic democracy arises from his account of finite beings, and shifts from finite beings to ever more complex bodies, such as the human individual and the artificial individual of the state. In this account, he challenges political authority to be responsive to the insight that our power arises out of rather than in spite of our multiplicity. Spinoza’s conception of social power provides a critical understanding of democratic organization that requires the incorporation of marginalized voices. In this essay, I argue that Spinoza’s defense of democracy sets the framework for political theorizing that rejects hierarchical structures of domination and demands substantial inclusivity in the service of empowered and peaceful social relations. In conceiving autonomy relationally and individual power collectively, Spinoza poses a critical challenge to the contemporary models of democracy and social orders that resist rather than harness the strength of social multiplicity in the preservation of empowered peace.
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Stojanovic, Djordje. "The promise of performative: Relational, genetic and scripted models in architectural design." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 11, no. 1 (2013): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace1301047s.
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This paper investigates the role of performative models within the context of architectural design. Understanding the performances of the built environment can be postulated in rather different manners. It is commonly expected that the built environment complies with the diverse and changing requirements of its users. It is equally required that buildings are economically constructed, easily maintained, energy efficient, safe and aesthetically pleasing. Yet, such expectations are complex and consist of a great number of intertwined effects that are not easy to synchronize during architectural design process. Although they can be precisely evaluated and quantitatively expressed, the values specifying the performances, such as temperature, humidity and intensity of light or sound, in traditionally established course of architectural design are usually only considered throughout the post-rationalization or correction of the architectural design. The research presented in this paper explores design mechanisms, for direct and formative incorporation of feedback information into the very conception of architectural form.
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Hayati, Lusia. "Fertilization, Cleavage and Implation." Sriwijaya Journal of Medicine 3, no. 3 (October 31, 2020): 138–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.32539/sjm.v3i3.229.
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Most of the livestock in Indonesia are still conventional or traditional farms, where the quality of the seeds, the use oftechnology and the skills of farmers are still relatively low, thus affecting the productivity and genetic quality oflivestock. Therefore it is necessary to have knowledge about livestock reproduction that discusses fertilization,cleveage and implantation. Fertilization or fertilization (singami) is the fusion of two gametes which can be a nucleusor nucleus cells to form a single cell (zygote) or fusion of the nucleus. the process starts with the preparation of ovumcells and spermatozoa; penetration; core incorporation; and early zygote cleavage. Fertilization phase is the meetingbetween sperm cells and ovum cells and will produce zygote. Zygote will perform cell division (cleavage). The zygotethen undergoes growth and development through stages, namely division, gastrulation, and organogenesis.Implantation or also known as oxidation is the process of implanting the embryo, which is the result of conception,into the uterine wall (endometrium) to further develop.
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Cole, Jennifer, and Karen Middleton. "Rethinking Ancestors and Colonial Power in Madagascar." Africa 71, no. 1 (February 2001): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2001.71.1.1.
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AbstractThis article reconsiders the relationship between ancestors and colonial power through a comparative analysis of the mortuary rituals of two Malagasy peoples, the Betsimisaraka of the east coast and the Karembola of the deep south. In contrast to analyses which emphasise an opposition between ancestors and colonial power, it argues that mortuary rituals construct striking analogies between the two. These analogies rest on similar conceptualisations of power as both enabling and enslaving, and are enacted in contemporary mortuary ritual through the incorporation of colonial goods and labour practices. By playing on similarities and differences between ancestral and colonial power, Betsimisaraka and Karembola mortuary rituals parody and critique mimetically appropriate colonial power, even as their appropriation of colonial symbols endows ritual practices around ancestors with the power to pull against the centralising power of the national sphere. Bakhtin's conception of heteroglossic language provides a useful way of conceptualising the multiple dimensions of ritual practices around ancestors.
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Fleming, Mary-Louise, Helen Higgins, Neville Owen, Alexandra Clavarino, Wendy Brown, Jacqui Lloyd, and Trish Gould. "Community Capacity Building for Health Promotion: Lessons from a Regional Australian Initiative." Australian Journal of Primary Health 13, no. 3 (2007): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py07034.
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This paper discusses a health promotion intervention that sets out to develop local capacity to address chronic disease risk factors in a remote Australian community. Community focus groups, and researcher and community discussions, aimed to determine the community's health concerns and build a partnership for community action. The journey from conception to reality was difficult for a number of reasons that are described here. Despite these difficulties, a range of outcomes included the establishment of an organisational structure that involved a local health promotion committee as the principal decision-maker, the establishment of a grants scheme to support locally determined initiatives and the formal incorporation of a community Health Promotion Committee (HPC) that ensured the sustainability of activities beyond the funded project period. The HPC is still coordinating health promotion activities. The promotion of community ownership of health promotion activities is a complicated process, given that time, resources, expertise and community involvement require a much longer-term commitment than that currently imposed by many funding bodies.
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Melucci, Alberto, and Leonardo Avritzer. "Complexity, cultural pluralism and democracy: collective action in the public space." Social Science Information 39, no. 4 (December 2000): 507–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/053901800039004001.
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This article is an attempt to show the political consequences of the forms of collective action introduced by social movements and their contribution to the formulation of a new conception of democratic practice. It is our contention that the current crisis faced by democracy is linked to the lack of a space capable of dealing with both social complexity and cultural pluralism. We argue that a public space for face-to-face interaction among citizens differentiated from the state allows us to consider this issue in a different light. Publicity allows the incorporation into democratic politics of demands for cultural integration by preserving a space for their direct presentation. Publicity also avoids a reductionist conception of political claims in which, in order for representation to take place, there is the need to reduce the plurality of the cultural demands through the aggregation of political majorities. In this article we show the tension between the public space and political representation, and argue that the definition of democracy in complex societies should include two further freedoms: the freedom not to belong as the right to withdraw from one's constituted identity in order to form a new one, and the freedom not to be represented. Such acts, which are non-aggregative par excellence, cannot be managed by the system of representation, but only through mechanisms of public presentation and acknowledgement of difference. In our view the tension between the political and the public should become part of the definition of democracy.
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Opoku-Bonsu, Kwame. "Rethinking Materiality In Pre-Tertiary Studio Art Education In Ghana." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 12 (December 30, 2017): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i12.1311.
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<p><em>This paper explores the conventional artist and environment connections, and argues that, environment that produce the Senior High School student do so with peculiar material affinities and competences ripe for 21<sup>st</sup> century art. The culture of obliging student to a few institutionalised media like clay, dyes and paints in the studio based art disciplines inhibit the numerous possibilities available, and confines art education to limited aptitudes and few institutionally expected expressions in pre-tertiary art education in Ghana. Using content analysis, the paper examines the Art Curricula and WAEC examination questions for Art Students at the SHS level. It recommends that, curricula and examination item reviews, as well as the incorporation of visual and material culture into artistic processes through democratization and participations of candidates’ cultural backgrounds, will usher in an art education premised on meaning making and conception, and institutionally groomed cultural ambassadors with significant material and visual diversities and competences.</em></p>
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Pezato, Rogerio, Richard Louis Voegels, Shirley Pignatari, Luiz Carlos Gregório, Thiago Freire Pinto Bezerra, Luciano Gregorio, Leonardo Balsalobre, et al. "Nasal Polyposis: More than a Chronic Inflammatory Disorder—A Disease of Mechanical Dysfunction—The São Paulo Position." International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology 23, no. 02 (March 1, 2019): 241–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1676659.
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Introduction The importance of our study lies in the fact that we have demonstrated the occurrence of mechanical dysfunction within polypoid tissues, which promotes the development of polyps in the nasal cavity. Objective To change the paradigm of nasal polyposis (NP). In this new conception, the chronic nasal inflammatory process that occurs in response to allergies, to pollution, to changes in the epithelial barrier, or to other factors is merely the trigger of the development of the disease in individuals with a genetic predisposition to an abnormal tissue remodeling process, which leads to a derangement of the mechanical properties of the nasal mucosa and, consequently, allows it to grow unchecked. Data Synthesis We propose a fundamentally new approach to intervening in the pathological process of NP, addressing biomechanical properties, fluid dynamics, and the concept of surface tension. Conclusion The incorporation of biomechanical knowledge into our understanding of NP provides a new perspective to help elucidate the physiology and the pathology of nasal polyps, and new avenues for the treatment and cure of NP.
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Carrigan, Mark, and Katy Jordan. "Platforms and Institutions in the Post-Pandemic University: a Case Study of Social Media and the Impact Agenda." Postdigital Science and Education 4, no. 2 (November 4, 2021): 354–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00269-x.
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AbstractIn this paper, we argue that digital platforms play an important role within higher education, not least of all when Covid-19 has made remote working the norm. An increasingly rich field of theoretical and empirical work has helped us understand platforms as socio-technical infrastructures which shape the activity of their users. Their insertion into higher education raises urgent institutional questions which necessitate dispensing with the individualised mode of analysis and instrumentalised conception of technology which often accompany these topics. We outline an alternative approach through a case study of social media in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, exploring the incorporation of platforms into research evaluation. Our findings suggest social media is invoked differently across disciplinary groupings, as well as platform metrics being cited in a naive and problematic matter. We offer a neo-institutionalist analysis which identifies a tendency towards isomorphism, with perceived ‘best practice’ being seized upon in response to uncertainty. We suggest such an approach is urgently needed given the role which digital platforms will play in building the post-Pandemic university.
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Santos, Paulo, Isabel Nazaré, Carlos Martins, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, and Alberto Hespanhol. "As Normas de Orientação Clínica em Portugal e os Valores dos Doentes." Acta Médica Portuguesa 28, no. 6 (October 27, 2015): 754. http://dx.doi.org/10.20344/amp.6301.
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<strong>Introduction:</strong> Clinical guidelines are support tools, aiming to improve quality of the clinical practice. Patient centered care allows best satisfaction rates, with greater health self-management, and potential gains in quality with fewer costs.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> To evaluate the integration of patients’ values in Portuguese guidelines.<br /><strong>Material and Methods:</strong> We reviewed the 18 guidelines about cardiovascular diseases published in Portugal from 2011 to 2013, searching for the integration of patients’ ideas, fears, expectations and preferences.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> Eight guidelines were related to diagnosis approach and 10 with treatment. We found references to patients’ values in 5 (28%) guidelines, all about treatment aspects. The incorporation of patients’ expectations was the most present feature. Reference to financial costs was present in 78% of the guidelines.<br /><strong>Discussion:</strong> Clinical guidelines are health technology instruments available to practitioners in order to improve the quality of care provided to patients, who are the real users of these tools. As in other countries, there is a tendency to disregard the users’ value systems in the conception of the guidelines, giving the privilege to a population logic, not always applicable to the individual, and to financial arithmetic with low support in cost-effectiveness assessments. In the Portuguese case, the way guidelines were proposed conditioned also some suspicion both in the professionals and in the users.<br /><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Portuguese guidelines have low incorporation of references to patients’ values. This is more evident when questions about diagnosis are addressed, placing patients in a secondary role in the clinical decision-making process with potential losses in quality of care and eventual increase in costs.
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Pinheiro, Douglas Antônio Rocha. "Assumptions and risks of a dystopian constitutionalism: reflections based on Philip K. Dick." ANAMORPHOSIS - Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura 6, no. 1 (June 28, 2020): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21119/anamps.61.101-124.
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This article is based on the Law and Literature methodology. It analyzes the shortage of contemporary utopian narratives. The object of analysis are the characteristics of constitutionalism in light of literary categories from dystopian literature – especially regarding Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report”. Thus, this paper examines to what extent the contemporary paranoia – both subjective and systemic – has strengthened court decisions based on pretentious illicit conspirations, as well as institutional solutions justified by the prospective use of automated processes, supposedly neutral and efficient. This paper also discusses the incorporation of a certain time paradigm of contemporary cultures, which is linear and unidirectional, with a rigid differentiation between past, present and future. Such conception creates temporal ghettos, besides imposing a dominant social rhythm that frustrates the very protective trait of constitutionalism, regarding the life projects of vulnerable minorities. Thus, this work reflects upon the fragility of the argumentative integrity seen in certain judicial sentences which are justified by consequentialist lines of thought, and which, by projecting future catastrophic effects for possible decisions, end up legitimizing opposite outcomes. In conclusion, the need for overcoming fear as the fundamental feeling in the social, institutional power is discussed.
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Stumpf, H., and W. Pfister. "Resolution of constraints and gauge equivalence in algebraic Schrödinger representation of quantum electrodynamics." Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 51, no. 10-11 (November 1, 1996): 1045–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zna-1996-10-1101.
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Abstract The algebraic formalism of QED is expounded in order to demonstrate both the resolution of constraints and to verify gauge equivalence between temporal gauge and Coulomb gauge on the quantum level. In the algebraic approach energy eigenstates of QED in temporal gauge are represented in an algebraic GNS basis. The corresponding Hilbert space is mapped into a functional space of generating functional states. The image of the QED-Heisenberg dynamics becomes a functional energy equation for these states. In the same manner the Gauß constraint is mapped into functional space. By suitable transformations the functional image of the Coulomb forces is recovered in temporal gauge. The equivalence of this result with the functional version of QED in Coulomb gauge is demonstrated. The meaning of the various transformations and their relations are illustrated for the case of harmonic oscillators. If applied to QCD this method allows an exact derivation of effective color "Coulomb" forces, in addition it implies a clear conception for the incorporation of various algebraic representations into the formal Heisenberg dynamics and establishes the algebraic "Schrödinger" equation for quantum fields in functional space.
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Stumpf, H., and W. Pfister. "Algebraic Schrödinger Representation of Quantum Chromodynamics in Temporal Gauge and Resolution of Constraints." Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A 52, no. 3 (March 1, 1997): 220–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zna-1997-0302.
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Abstract The algebraic formalism of QCD is expounded in order to demonstrate the resolution of Gauß constraints on the quantum level. In the algebraic approach energy eigenstates of QCD in temporal gauge are represented in an algebraic GNS-basis. The corresponding Hilbert space is mapped into a functional space of generating functional states. The image of the QCD-Heisenberg dynamics becomes a functional energy equation for these states. In the same manner the Gauß constraints are mapped into functional space. In functional space the Gauß constraints can be exactly resolved. The resolutions are defined by nonperturbative recurrence relations. The longitudinal color electric energy can be expressed by means of these resolvents, which leads to "dressed" color Coulomb forces in temporal gauge. Although present in the system, the longitudinal vector potentials do not affect its energy eigenvalues. This leads to a selfconsistent subsystem within the functional energy equation in temporal gauge which has to be identified with a functional energy equation in Coulomb gauge. In addition this procedure implies a clear conception for the incorporation of various algebraic representations into the formal Heisenberg dynamics and establishes the algebraic “Schrödinger” equation for QCD in functional space.
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Rennie, David. "“The world only exists through your apprehension”: World War I in This Side of Paradise and Tender Is the Night." F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 14, no. 1 (November 1, 2016): 181–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.14.1.181.
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Abstract Scholars have spoken of Tender Is the Night as marking Fitzgerald's most “mature” representation of World War I in his fiction. This article, however, argues that all of the main facets of Fitzgerald's depiction of World War I in Tender Is the Night can be identified in his first novel, This Side of Paradise. Amory Blaine, like Dick Diver, is given to questioning the significance of the war, concluding as he does that it has resulted in a profound and irrevocable severance between his and preceding generations. Amory and Dick are further linked by the ways in which their self-conception is simultaneously challenged and empowered by World War I. Although divorced from the stability of the pre-war world, Amory and Dick appropriate the war, as they understand it, as a powerful new means of conceptualizing themselves and the generation to which they belong. The article concludes by arguing that This Side of Paradise and Tender Is the Night are further connected by Fitzgerald's incorporation of characters that hold readings of the war that contrast with those offered by the protagonist, a strategy that accentuates the subjectivity of Amory and Dick's views.
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Roth, Zvi, Yaron Z. Kressel, Yaniv Lavon, Dorit Kalo, and David Wolfenson. "Administration of GnRH at Onset of Estrus, Determined by Automatic Activity Monitoring, to Improve Dairy Cow Fertility during the Summer and Autumn." Animals 11, no. 8 (July 23, 2021): 2194. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11082194.
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We examined gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) administration at onset of estrus (OE), determined by automatic activity monitoring (AAM), to improve fertility of dairy cows during the summer and autumn. The study was performed on two dairy farms in Israel. The OE was determined by AAM recorded every 2 h, and a single im dose of GnRH analogue was administered shortly after OE. Pregnancy was determined by transrectal palpation, 40 to 45 d after artificial insemination (AI). Conception risk was analyzed by the GLIMMIX procedure of SAS. Brief visual observation of behavioral estrus indicated that about three-quarters of the events (n = 40) of visually detected OE occurred within 6 h of AAM-detected OE. Accordingly, the GnRH analogue was administered within 5 h of AAM-detected OE, to overlap with the expected endogenous preovulatory LH surge. Overall, pregnancy per AI (P/AI) was monitored over the entire experimental period (summer and autumn) in 233 first, second or third AI (116 and 117 AI for treated and control groups, respectively). Least square means of P/AI for treated (45.8%) and control (39.4%) groups did not differ, but group-by-season interaction tended to differ (p = 0.07), indicating no effect of treatment in the summer and a marked effect of GnRH treatment (n = 58 AI) compared to controls (n = 59 AI) on P/AI in the autumn (56.6% vs. 28.5%, p < 0.03). During the autumn, GnRH-treated mature cows (second or more lactations), and postpartum cows exhibiting metabolic and uterine diseases, tended to have much larger P/AI than their control counterparts (p = 0.07–0.08). No effect of treatment was recorded in the autumn in first parity cows or in uninfected, healthy cows. In conclusion, administration of GnRH within 5 h of AAM-determined OE improved conception risk in cows during the autumn, particularly in those exhibiting uterine or metabolic diseases postpartum and in mature cows. Incorporation of the proposed GnRH treatment shortly after AAM-detected OE into a synchronization program is suggested, to improve fertility of positively responding subpopulations of cows.
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Hedman, Eva‐Lotta E. "In Search of Oppositions: South East Asia in Focus." Government and Opposition 32, no. 4 (October 1997): 578–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb00447.x.
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ANY INVESTIGATION OF POLITICAL OPPOSITIONS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC must necessarily begin, if not end, with the obvious. First of all, there is the evident weakness of political oppositions in much of this part of the world today — whether we focus on the commonly capitalized ‘Opposition’ denoting ‘a political party opposing, and serving as a check on, the party in power’ (Webster's, italics added), or on the more variegated lower case ‘alternative oppositions’ often associated with so-called ‘non-governmental organizations’ of some sort or another. To a considerable extent, therefore, this question involves the compounded difficulty of not merely explaining the careers and conditions of manifest political groupings and their respective trajectories but also, significantly, of retrieving the historical traces, lived experiences and collective memories of oppositions displaced — whether by means of incorporation or of exclusion. Secondly, despite its remarkable recent rise in political, financial and academic discourse, ‘the Asia-Pacific’ remains a highly elusive — and eminently elastic — conception in terms of historical, economic and cultural content. Significantly, for the present discussion, no ‘wave’ of regime transitions comparable to those witnessed in other regions — Southern Europe, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Tropical Africa — can be discerned across the countries encompassed within ‘the Asia-Pacific’.
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Romero-Tena, Rosalía, Carmen Llorente-Cejudo, María Puig-Gutiérrez, and Raquel Barragán-Sánchez. "The Pandemic and Changes in the Self-Perception of Teacher Digital Competences of Infant Grade Students: A Cross Sectional Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9 (April 29, 2021): 4756. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094756.
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Without having a reaction time, the pandemic has caused an unprecedented transformation in universities around the world, leading to a revolution from structured models anchored in the conception of transmission of training towards a teaching approach-learning saved thanks to the incorporation of technology. This study aims to verify whether the pandemic situation has influenced the digital competence self-perception of students. Comparing two groups during the academic years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, the instrument used is the questionnaire for digital competence “DigCompEdu Check-In” for future teachers. After the educational intervention, group A (before COVID-19) presented higher self-perceptions of competence than group B (during COVID-19); the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19 has negatively influenced students’ self-perception of their digital skills in the pretest in the different dimensions under study. Before receiving the training, the group that did not experience the pandemic enjoyed a higher self-perception of their competencies than the group that experienced the pandemic. The data obtained indicate that the difference exists, and that it is statistically significant, and may be a consequence of the clear relationship between self-perception and the way in which students face reality through their personal and subjective vision.
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Karácsony, Noémi, and Mădălina Dana Rucsanda. "Indian Culture and Music as a Source of Inspiration for French Opera Composers." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musica 66, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2021.2.08.
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"The current paper strives to discover and reveal the influences of Indian culture and classical Indian music in French operas. At first, the evocation of India was obtained through the subjects of the operas and stunning scenic designs, fulfilling the requirements of exoticism. Gradually, the composers attempted to include in their musical discourses exotic rhythmic and melodic elements, in some instances inspired by Indian classical music, thus aiming to evoke a genuine image of India. At the same time, the use of elements pertaining to Indian music (rāgas, rhythmic patterns, timbres) offered the musicians the possibility to create novel sound discourses. The analysis focuses on several operas, composed between the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, following the evolution of Indian representations in several dimensions: dramatic (libretto), visual (scenic representations, dance), and musical (melody, rhythm, timbre). The present paper investigates the way Indian themes influenced the conception of the libretto, and at the same time the visual dimension of the works (setting, costumes), observing how these visual elements were gradually absorbed into the musical discourse (analysis of the melodic structures), through the incorporation of Indian rāgas in works conceived according to the rules of Western music composition. Keywords: exoticism, orientalism, India, French opera, rāga "
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Gómez Devis, María Begoña, and Elia Saneleuterio. "Los procesos de revisión textual en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje. Evaluar para aprender en la universidad." Research in Education and Learning Innovation Archives, no. 24 (June 24, 2020): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/realia.24.16048.
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This paper presents the results of a research linked to the skills development in the assessment of written expression—revision and rewriting—in collaboration and online. 167 students have participated, all of them enrolled during 2018-2019 in the first and fourth years of the Master’s degrees in Primary Education and Childhood Education of the University of Valencia. The analyzed data come from the experimentation of a series of pedagogical practices aimed at the development and improvement of the academic-professional communication skills of both degrees and clearly convergent with the principles of the EHEA methodological framework: (1) the centrality of the competences as object of university learning; (2) an action-oriented learning model; and (3) a conception of university education as a process of progressive approach, incorporation and integration in the community of experts and professionals in the area. To this aim, an assessment procedure has been designed including a series of tasks focused on the linguistic education of future teachers: its analysis emerges the conviction of the potential of collaborative learning, the effectiveness of virtual learning environments and learning-oriented assessment. Some relevant conclusions are confirmed: the ability of the approach to generate collaborative dynamics between peers and its convenience to optimize the learning of academic writing, as well as the pedagogical knowledge of the assessment.
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Mojtahedi, Zahra, and Abbas Ghaderi. "Proteomics Studies in Oncology Towards Personalized Medicine in Public Health: Opportunities and Challenges for OMICS Research in Iran." Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 10, no. 4 (November 6, 2012): 265–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/187569212803901756.
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Although personalized medicine is not a new concept, recent advances in OMICS technologies and highthroughput discovery of biomarkers have taken this goal to greater heights as well as challenges, particularly from the perspective of globalized post-genomics science. The crucial question is to what extent developing countries can participate in this nascent healthcare facet in the 21st century? In Iran, this issue is even more challenging due to several cross-cutting factors such as inadequate financial and skilled human resources and importantly, sanctions on the import of a wide array of technologies that have seriously affected advanced proteomic instruments such as mass spectrometry. Apart from these barriers, another drawback is the inadequate incorporation of high-throughput data into cancer clinical settings. The available instruments in Iran are essentially limited to the level of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis equipment. However, opportunity still exists for collaboration with proteomic centers equipped with mass spectrometry abroad while local scientists contributing to proteomics study conception, design and implementation. In this article, we discuss the current OMICS data-intensive research conducted in Iran, with a view to "proteomics-in-oncology", considering in parallel the effects of international sanctions on the ongoing research in the country. The lessons learned have broad importance to inform the global personalized medicine scientific community on the ways in which postgenomics science is presently making strides in resource-limited settings.
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Baylouny, Anne Marie. "CREATING KIN: NEW FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS AS WELFARE PROVIDERS IN LIBERALIZING JORDAN." International Journal of Middle East Studies 38, no. 3 (August 2006): 349–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743806412381.
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In the decade and a half since economic liberalization began in Jordan, a little noticed but large-scale organizing trend has taken over the formal provision of social welfare, redefining the institutional conception of familial identity in the process. For over one third of the population, kin solidarities have been reorganized, formalized, and registered as nongovernmental organizations in an attempt to cope with the removal of basic social provisioning by the state. Although kinship clearly has been a major element in Jordan's history, the present phenomena alter traditional familial institutions, change kin lineages, and institutionalize the economic salience of family relations. In turn, the relationship of the populace to the state has changed, marginalizing previously regime-supporting groups and facilitating the implementation of economic neoliberalism without significant protest. Repackaged as charitable elements of civil society, these family associations are sanctioned and encouraged by the state and international community. Although they are not regime creations, family associations reinforce the Jordanian regime's efforts at political deliberalization. The new elites who head the organizations have been placated through indirect incorporation into the regime; they now wield significant economic power over fellow kin and have enhanced social status backed by the new group. Furthermore, the trend mainly consists of families without immediate ambitions of entering national politics. These are not the traditional elite families.